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PIPE HANGER.

No. 448,550. Patented Mar. 17,1891.

WITNESSES.

n'i'ren STATES PATENT Prion.

FRANK G. SCOTT AND GEORGE L. SCOTT, OF NEYVPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

PIPE-HANGER.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,550, dated March 1'7, 1891.

Application filed October 30, 1890. Serial No. 369.793- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK G. SCOTT and GEORGE L. SCOTT, of Newport, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved Pipe-Hanger, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to devices for hanging pipes to and along the walls, ceilings, or floors of buildings, or in underground conduits or subways or other localities, and has for its object to provide simple, inexpensive, and eflieient hanger devices of this character whereby pipes of any size may be put up by pipe-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, or other workman without the aid of a blacksmith, and so as to be substantially supported and present a neatly-finished appearance.

The invention will first be described, and then will be particularly defined in claims hereinafter set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyin g drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of the hangerhook. Fi 2 is a perspective view of the wallplate by which the hook-holding rod is sustained. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the wall-plate with a portion of the hook-rod therein; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are views illustrating various uses of the pipe-hanger, which will be hereinafter more particularly referred to in describing the invention.

The hook A and wall-plate B of the device are preferably made of malleable iron, and the rod 0, which connects the hook to the wall-plate for various uses of the hanger, is preferably made of ordinary wrought or rolled iron.

The hanger-hook A is made with a main curved or bent body portion a,provided with an end shank or head a, in which are produced by casting, boring, or otherwise two crossing holes or apertures a either of which is adapted to receive the rod 0. The hole a preferably ranges about parallel with an imaginary line touching the two ends of the hook, and the hole a ranges, preferably, about at a right angle with the hole a which latter is preferably countersunk at the inner face of the hook, shank, or head, as indicated by the dotted lines at a in the drawings, to accommodate the upset head of the hangerrod. The central part of the hook-body is made sufficiently thick to allow a hole or perforation a to be made in it about parallel with the shank-hole a either of these holes a a a being adapted to receive the hanger-rod, as hereinafter more fully explained.

The wall-plate B is made with a central outward enlargement, which is longitudinally bored through at b, and is also transversely bored through at Z), and is also preferably countersunk at the back face at b to accomodate the head (2 of the hanger-rod G in certain adjust ments of the device. The wallplate is also provided with backwardly-projecting spurs or teeth 19 b which are to be driven into the wall or support to temporarily sustain the hanger and pipe prior to effecting the permanent fastening by means of screws, belts, or nails driven through the holes 5 of the plate into the wall or support.

.The drawings represent several adaptations of the invention for supporting pipes ranging either horizontally or vertically, these being but examples of the marked utility of the hanger device.

In Fig. at the wallplat-e B is shown fixed to the side of a beam or other vertical wall or support 1, with the hanger-rod 0 passed through the hole I) of the plate and headed above the plate, while the hook A is sustained by the lower headed end of the rod, which passes through the hole a of the hook.

In Fig. 5 the hanger-rod O is passed through the transverse bore bof the wall-plate,which is fastened to a ceiling or oveghead support 2, the hanger-rod being here also shown as passing through the bore a of the hook head or shank, which head rests upon the head of the rod, or it may be a nut threaded thereon. This figure also illustrates by dotted lines how one or more extra hooks may be hung by their holes a onto one rod, the extra hook being shown swung to the opposite side from the lowermost hook; but these extra hooks may be sustained at any desired height on the rod by simply chiseling or burring it to prevent downslip of the hook.

Fig. 6 of the drawings illustrates how a series of gutter-sustaining hooks A may be supported from a wall 3 by means of spikes or bolts C, passed through the hook hole or aperture a into the support, and the dotted lines in this view show how wall-plates B and hanger-rods C may be used simultaneously with the belts or spikes O to sustain aheavy pipe from both side and overhead supports.

Fig. 7 of the drawings shows how a belt or spike C may be passed through the hookshank hole (t into aside wall or support 4 to sustain a pipe therefrom, and Fig. 8 illustratcs 110w two of the hooks A may be fast ened together to nearly encircle a pipe, and by means of a bolt D, passed through the shank-holes a of the hooks,this view also showing how two rods C C are passed at one end through the holes a of the hooks and at the other end through the holes Z) of the wallplates to allow a heavy line of pipe to be supported from either the floor 5 or from a ceiling and at any desired distance therefrom, depending on the length of the rods.

We purpose making the hooks in various sizes for sustaining pipes of different diameters. Ilenceonanyordinaryworkitisonlynecessary for the pipe-fitter, plumber, or tinsmith workmen to carry a supply of the hooks and the wall-plates and suitable iron rods, from which the hanger-rods C C C C may be cut to any requisite length and afterward headed for use with the wall-plates and hooks, as circumstances may require, and this may be done in fitting up lines of pipes or gutters on any class of work without the aid of a blacksmith, thereby promoting economy of time and labor, and the work when done presents a far neater appearance than is possible when the ordinary strap-iron hangers held by nails, bolts, or screws are employed.

It will be noticed that the hooks A may be swung or turned to any angle to accommodate the range of the lines of pipe which they substantially support. Hence these hangers are adapted to sustain steam, water, or soil pipes however it may be necessary to run them along the floors, ceilings, side walls, or roofs of buildings, or for supporting pipes in underground conduits or subways, or in other situations for any purpose.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pipe-hanger comprising ahook having a head or shank provided with holes ranging at angles with each other, a rod adapted interchangeably to either of the holes to support the hook, and a wall-plate provided with holes ranging at angles with each other and adapted to receive and sustain the hangerrod, substantially as described.

2. A pipe-hanger com prising a hook having a head or shank provided with holes rang ing at angles with each other, and also having a lengthwise hole through its bent body portion, a rod adapted interchangeably to said holes to support the hook, and a wall-plate provided with holes ranging at angles with each other and adapted to receive and sustain the hangerrod, substantially as described.

3. In pipe-hangers, the pipe-sustaining hook provided in its head orshank with holes a a ranging about at right angles with each oth er, in combination with means, substantially as described, for supporting said hook, substantially as described.

4. In pipe-hangers, the pipesnstaining hook provided in its bent body portion with a lengthwise hole a in combination with means, substantially as described, for supporting said hook,substantially as described.

5. In pipe-hangers, the pipe-sustaining hook provided in its head or shank with holes a a ranging about at right angles with each other, and provided in its bent body portion with a lengthwise hole a, in combination with mean s, substantially as described, for supporting said hook, substantially as described.

6. In pipe-hangers, the hanger-rod wallplate provided with holes Z) Z), ranging about at right angles with each other, in combination with a rod Cand a hook A, substantially as described.

FRANK G. SCOTT. GEORGE L. SCOT.

Witnesses:

WM. G. WARD, Jr., CHAS. A. GODDEN. 

